Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, May 6, 1993 TAG: 9305060064
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 7 EDITION: METRO
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Janet said in the June issue of Spin magazine that LaToya's stories of sexual and physical abuse by their father are fiction.
"I think LaToya is being brainwashed," Jackson said. "That is my opinion. I think that's an attention-getter for her."
She said she approved of brother Michael's interview with Oprah Winfrey and his Grammy Awards speech, which showed people he is "human, he's not weird, and that he's a good-hearted person."
The pop star said Madonna's "Sex" is "a horrible book."
"She didn't even sell that many albums. Her last album sold 2 million. They shipped it, but it got shipped back," Jackson said.
Actor Sean Connery says books gave him the confidence he needed early in his career, before he became the dashing James Bond.
Connery was a 20-year-old laborer when he joined a touring production of "South Pacific" and was impressed by his well-read fellow actors.
"I had no confidence in terms of intellect at all because I'd had absolutely no exposure to it," the 62-year-old star said in the June issue of Vanity Fair.
So for 18 months, Connery sat in libraries, reading classics.
"Suddenly, one's got an ammunition to deal with others," he said. "And if you have any success in your chosen field, you start to develop more, and with that comes the confidence to have more opinions."
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